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KITAZATO, SHIBASABURO (1856- )

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KITAZATO, SHIBASABURO (1856- ) , See also:Japanese See also:doctor of See also:medicine, was See also:born at Kumamoto in 1856 and studied in See also:Germany under See also:Koch from 1885 to 1891. He became one of the foremost bacteriologists of the See also:world, and enjoyed the See also:credit of having discovered the bacilli of See also:tetanus, See also:diphtheria and See also:plague, the last in See also:conjunction with Dr Aoyama, who accompanied him to Hong-See also:Kong in 1894 during an epidemic at that See also:place. See also:KIT-See also:CAT See also:CLUB, a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians and men of letters, founded in See also:London about 1703. The name was derived from that of See also:Christopher Cat, the keeper of the See also:pie-See also:house in which the club met in See also:Shire See also:Lane, near See also:Temple See also:Bar. The meetings were afterwards held at the See also:Fountain See also:tavern in the Strand, and latterly in a See also:room specially built for the purpose at See also:Barn Elms, the See also:residence of the secretary, See also:Jacob See also:Tonson, the publisher. In summer the club met at the Upper See also:Flask, See also:Hampstead See also:Heath. The club originally consisted of See also:thirty-nine, afterwards of See also:forty-eight members, and included among others the See also:duke of See also:Marlborough, Lords See also:Halifax and See also:Somers, See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole, See also:Vanbrugh, See also:Congreve, See also:Steele and See also:Addison. The portraits of many of the members were painted by Sir See also:Godfrey See also:Kneller, himself a member, of a See also:uniform See also:size suited to the height of the Barn Elms room in which the club dined. The See also:canvas, 36 X 28 in., admitted of less than a See also:half-length portrait but was sufficiently See also:long to include a See also:hand, and this is known as the kit-cat size. The club was dissolved about 1720.

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